A25478:1183
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And herein Christ doth intimate to them, that if they were indeed his Disciples, and the children of the Bride-chamber, they would not fast neither; for the children of the Bride-chamber cannot fast while the Bridegroom is with them.
But he adds; The days will come when the Bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. And so I come to the Text.
Wherein we may observe by the way
1. That Christ doth exempt his Disciples from observing those fasts that the Pharisees and John's Disciples were in the practice of.1 And the rather because they were observed, especially on the Pharisees part, Ex simulato pietatis studio, out of ostentation of piety, and for self-justification. As he did exempt them from their other traditions, so also from their fasts.
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